From the Data Protection Commission: The Data Protection Commission has today launched its Annual Report for 2023. Highlights of the 2023 Annual report include: The DPC issued 19 finalised decisions resulting in administrative fines totalling €1.55 billion, along with multiple reprimands and compliance orders being imposed, including: In May 2023, the DPC announced the conclusion to…
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Illinois Legislature Passes BIPA Amendment Limiting Violation Accrual
Lindsey Tonsager, Libbie Canter, and Priya Leeds of Covington and Burling write: Yesterday, both houses of Illinois’ legislature passed S.B. 2979, a significant amendment to the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA). The bill states that an entity that, in more than one instance, obtains the same biometric identifier or biometric information from the same…
Massachusetts Data Privacy Act Approved by Legislative Committee
EPIC writes: The Chairs of the Joint Committee on Advanced Information Technology, the Internet, and Cybersecurity of the Massachusetts General Court, Representative Tricia Farley-Bouvier and Senator Michael Moore, announced today that the Massachusetts Data Privacy Act (“MDPA”) had been reported favorably out of Committee. If passed, the MDPA would be the strongest state privacy law in…
Arizona voted to repeal its abortion ban
Matthew Cullen reports: Arizona lawmakers today repealed an abortion ban that first became law in 1864, when Abraham Lincoln was president and a half-century before women won the right to vote. The repeal narrowly passed the Republican-controlled State Senate with the support of all 14 Democratic senators and two Republicans. Gov. Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, is…